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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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What It Means to Read "Critically" in a Japanese Language Classroom: Students' Perspectives
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Kumagai, Yuri; Iwasaki, Noriko – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2011
Questioning the traditional reading instruction that overly emphasizes literal comprehension of texts, one of the authors conducted action research and revised her advanced-level Japanese reading course at a university by incorporating some principles from critical literacy. The "critical reading" course aimed at developing students' ability to…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Action Research, Japanese, Reading Instruction
Tension in a Japanese Language Classroom: An Opportunity for Critical Literacy?
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Kumagai, Yuri – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2007
This paper presents one example of moments of tension from a yearlong ethnographic study conducted in a college intermediate Japanese-as-a-foreign-language classroom (Kumagai, 2004). I define moments of tension as those moments when conflicts arise between an instructor's teaching agenda and students' learning agenda. Conducting critical discourse…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, Japanese, Second Language Instruction